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Alright, so the luxury of traveling for a job, you have the opportunity to try spirits from all over this glorious United States and the countries across the pond. You get to get feedback from those gunslingers behind the bar who claim they know what you need based upon your palate, your mannerisms or basically how much you have had to drink. Well this time, I wanted to throw some dirty laundry on the field because I couldn’t believe what I was first seeing then what I was hearing.

So, to paint the picture, sitting in Minneapolis, MN Airport as I puddle jump over to Las Vegas for a weeks’ worth of gambling, errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr working. I stumbled upon a local airport bar with an exceptional selection and I saw a glorious bottle of High West Double Rye Whiskey. Immediately I knew exactly what I was getting but I was sort of confused. My confusion was that it was on the basic row of whiskey’s. Sitting next to the Rebel Yell’s, Jim Beam (white label) and Jameson. I made a snide comment to the bartender that did he mistake the location of the High West? It should certainly be higher in the line of spirts then on the first level. That is almost “The Rails” when you think about its location. He quickly corrected me by saying it is an entry level whiskey that they were trying out but it certainly isn’t a high seller within their airport. So, me being the traveler who loves a great deal was screaming hell yeah on the inside but feeling calm and cool and ordering a double on the rocks.

See this is where the fairy tale turns a bit south because TWO LEVELS UP was Slow & Low – Rock and Rye. If you heard a few of our episodes in the past, we reviewed both of these whiskey’s during separate podcasts. I told the bartender, is that a mistake that Slow & Low is more in demand than the High West Rye? To my surprise, Slow & Low is as popular as Jack Daniels in that airport because that rock and feel whiskey is popular to those airport customers who are traveling through the land of 1000 lakes… It really took me two separate whiskeys to take all of that in and believe that was a valid statement? My next question left the bartender almost dumbfounded. When I said, I am getting ready to order my third High West Double Rye (for $5.50 AT AN AIRPORT!!!!), how many folks order a second round of Slow & Low? His response, not many. They find it is unique in flavor, they don’t need anymore. What I heard what he said, folks hated me for letting them order that whiskey.

Now, I am just a single traveler on a global podcast series with one of my best friends. I think he would completely agree with this statement. Friends don’t let friends drink Slow & Low when High West Double Rye is $5.50 at an airport. Enough said, time to catch my next flight…

When your host make the statement.. Dude.. I gotta a guy who wants to come on the show, drink whiskey and play some music.. You have to trust him.. Well in this episode, we welcomed James Weston and Daniel Kemish on to the rails for some whiskey, wings and music. Opposed to having a whiskey review, we opened our whiskey selection to our guests and let them choose their own whiskey adventure.. Check out this awesome podcast and make sure you check out these guys since they are fresh off the lower Scandinavian tour. Train.. Train..

This podcast recording was a first for both Rob and Eric. While we have spent every single podcast reviewing a variety of whiskeys, we decided to open our whiskey cabinet for our guests and let them choose their own whiskey adventure. James Weston and Daniel Kemish took time out of their US tour and played a special engagement at our local establishment. James has known Eric for a great number of years and saw this as a perfect time to bring in a long-time friend and have a small intimate engagement with a bunch of family and friends.

Well that was the ultimate goal however James had made a comment on a goal he would like to achieve.. He wanted to sit down and drink whiskey and sing some music.. Let’s see, we have a full selection of whiskey and we have a stage for bands to play music.. Wait, we could easily complete that dream, drink some great whiskey and hear some awesome music. At the end of our podcast, you do get to hear a live cut from Daniel Kemish for our listeners.

We want to save a lot of the conversation for the podcast but we are very grateful that James and Daniel sat down for podcast and played a hell of a show for those who attended. If you get the opportunity James Weston And Daniel Kemishto see them in a city near you, go and check them out.. If you say you are a whiskey drinker and want to share a drink with them. Be ready, we are seasoned drinkers when it comes to whiskey and even we were impressed with no only their knowledge of the whiskey but their repeat drinking experience.

Now, we have said it before and we will keep saying it again. We are so very greatly with the awesome line up of companies we are working with during this podcast. We like to think of each of our sponsors / partners as part of our extended Whiskey On The Rails family. When you get to pair up such great products, it is really fun to come out and record every week because we stand behind everything we talk about and enjoy each of the products we get to use during the show. Even Eric and Rob get along during the podcast because of these great products and that right there is a miracle..